Deck S2 Flashcards
European Colonization
President Monroe told the Europeans they could not come to America they went to Africa SW Asia
North Africa and SW Asia
Common religion is Islam
Francisco Coranado
Looked for 7 cities of gold
Plymouth Colony
Mayflower Compact formed on the boat
Order of battles
This is wrong- look it up
Sugar tax
Lexington
Tea party
Boston Massacre
How many people died in the Boston Massacre
2 People
Krispy Adduxs
1 person that died in the Boston Massacre
Thomas Paine
Wrote Common Sense, led to American Revolution
Nathan Hale
He went to hell- executed by a spy
Stamp Tax
Put on Americas by Britain- tax on newspapers, books, etc but did not tac the British like that
Colonization
Move to a new place, but keep their own laws, rules
Hereford
Immigrants in Amarillo
Trade makes wealth, more gold more power
Mercantilism
Manifest Destiny
Picture of angel flying over wagons
East coast to west coast- from sea to shining sea
2 ways to move west
Chinese Irish immigrants built railroads
Homestead act of 1862- 160 acres
Author of the constitution
James Madison
Madison Mason Pinckney
M and M peanuts. Formed the constitution
European Colonization tried
Tried to come over take over land and make everybody Catholic
Mayflower Compact
Formed on the boat
Boston Tea Party
Tax on teas- done by sons of liberty
Common Sense- from Boston Mass
Thomas Paine led to American Revolution
Nathan Hale
He went to hell- he was executed because he was a spy
Stamp Act
Tax on newspaper - regulated this tax
Louisiana Purchase
Bought from France, led by Thomas Jefferson it was his greatest achievement middle 3rd of US
Lewis and Clark
2 scouts
Abolitionist
abolish slavery
Underground Railroad
Harriet aTubman- map-all arris point north
Kansas Nebraska act
People should have the right to vote if they own slaves
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln
Picture of a man with chains on the ground
13th Admendment
Clara Barton
Red Cross
Connects Pacific to the Atlantic
Move west to east
Isthmus
Panama Canal
19th admendment
Women’s right to vote
Carrie Chap
Women’s Sufferage
Temperance
Took away booze
King of Ragtime
Scott Joplin
Maple leaf rag
Scott Joplin
Didn’t take care of land
drought
Dustbowl
Decertification
Like a desert
New Deal was made by
Frank Roosevelt
New deal
Got us out of depression
3 ways the new deal got us out of the depression
1 built bridges
2 built roads
3 built dams
Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
League of Nations
Group of nations trying to stop WWII
Audie Murphy
Most decorated solider of WWII
Thurgood Marshall
First black man to be appointed to Supreme Court
Was civil rights lawyer before that
MLK
Peaceful protest
Statue of Liberty is a symbol of
Democracy and freedom
Most developed Indians
Who were these indians
Farmers
Caddo Indians
Tonkawas and Coroncalas
Gulf coast indians
Nomadic Indians
Blackfoot Sioux
Why did Indians become seditary
Extinction of Buffalo
Bo weevil
Got rid of Pueblo Indians
Bo weevil ate Cotton
Moses Austin
Brought 300 families to Texas
Empensario
Business man- Steven F Austin
Steven F Austin was known as
Giver of land
Emprasario
Texians and Tejanos
exians were Anglo-American residents of Mexican Texas and, later, the Republic of Texas. Today, the term is used to identify early settlers of Texas, especially those who supported the Texas Revolution. Mexican settlers of that era are referred to as Tejanos, and residents of modern Texas are known as Texans.
Galvanized horses
Alamo Battle
Remember the Alamo
It recalled the desperate fight of the Texan defenders in the Alamo, a besieged fort, where they died to the last man. It gave the Texans more reason to win the war
Texas Rev battle, won our independence
Mexicans were having a siesta and the Texas surrounded them while they slept
Battle of San Jacinto
Texas Revolution battles
Remember the Alamo
San Jacinto
Why did the Mexican want Texans to come to their land
To develop land
Why Texans wanted to get out of Mexico
Mexicans wanted to make them Catholic
Spanish American War
WWI
WWII
Korean War
Wars Buffalo Soldiers fought in
They named the black soldiers the Buffalo Soldiers because
They has thick coarse hair
Trail of Tears
Rounded up all the Indians and put them in OK
Mary Ferguson
First woman governor of Texas, pardoned a bunch of convicts, many of them for alcohol related incidents, and saved the state a lot of money
Freedom of Speech
1st admendment
Right to bear arms
2nd Amendment
The right to not have to house a solider
3rd admendment
The right not to have unreasonable search and seizure
4th amendment
No double jeopardy
5th amendment
I killed 5 people and I am free because of double jeopardy
The right to a speedy trial with a jury of your peers
6th amendment